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Manual De Improvisación En Jazz (A Jazz Improvisation Primer) Manual de improvisación en Jazz (A Jazz Improvisation Primer) Marc Sabatella Copyright 1992-2000 Outside Shore Music Marc Sabatella / [email protected] / (303)232-1613 2490 Otis Street, Edgewater, CO 80214 1 Contenido 0. Prefacio ................................................................................................................................6 1. Objetivos ..................................................................................................................................9 1.1. Plan general .....................................................................................................................10 1.2. Otros recursos .................................................................................................................11 2. Breve historia del jazz.............................................................................................................12 2.1. Early Jazz .........................................................................................................................13 2.2. Las Big Band Jazz y el Swing ............................................................................................14 2.3. El Bebop ..........................................................................................................................15 2.4. El Cool Jazz ......................................................................................................................17 2.5. El Hard Bop ......................................................................................................................17 2.6. El Post Bop .......................................................................................................................18 2.7. El Free Jazz y la Vanguardia .............................................................................................21 2.8. La Fusion..........................................................................................................................22 2.9. El Jazz Post Moderno .......................................................................................................22 2.10. La actualidad .................................................................................................................23 2.11. Los Diez Principales .......................................................................................................24 3. Los fundamentos del Jazz .......................................................................................................26 3.1. La estructura ...................................................................................................................26 3.2. El Swing ...........................................................................................................................28 3.2.1. Definición .................................................................................................................28 3.2.2. La práctica del Swing ...............................................................................................29 3.3. La creatividad ..................................................................................................................31 3.3.1. El proceso creativo ...................................................................................................31 3.3.2. Tocar ........................................................................................................................33 2 4. Las relaciones acorde/escala ..................................................................................................36 4.1. Teoría Básica ...................................................................................................................36 4.1.1. Los intervalos ...........................................................................................................37 4.1.2. Las escalas mayor y menor .......................................................................................37 4.1.3. Los acordes ...............................................................................................................39 4.1.4. El ciclo de quintas ....................................................................................................41 4.2. La armonía de la escala mayor ........................................................................................43 4.2.1. La escala mayor ........................................................................................................43 4.2.2. El modo dórico .........................................................................................................44 4.2.3. El modo frigio ..........................................................................................................45 4.2.4. El modo lidio ............................................................................................................45 4.2.5. El modo mixolidio ....................................................................................................46 4.2.6. La escala menor ........................................................................................................47 4.2.7. El modo locrio ..........................................................................................................47 4.3. La armonía de la menor melódica ...................................................................................47 4.3.1. El modo frigio #6 .....................................................................................................49 4.3.2. El modo lidio aumentado ..........................................................................................49 4.3.3. El modo lidio dominante ..........................................................................................49 4.3.4. El modo quinto .........................................................................................................50 4.3.5. El modo locrio #2 .....................................................................................................50 4.3.6. La escala alterada .....................................................................................................51 4.4. Las escalas simétricas ......................................................................................................52 4.4.1. La escala de tonos enteros ........................................................................................53 4.4.2. Las escalas disminuidas ............................................................................................54 4.5. Las escalas pentatónicas .................................................................................................55 4.6. Las escalas derivadas .......................................................................................................56 4.6.1. La escala Blues .........................................................................................................57 3 4.6.2. Las escalas menores .................................................................................................58 4.6.3. Las escalas Bebop ....................................................................................................59 4.6.4. Las escalas sintéticas ................................................................................................60 4.7. La tabla de la relación acorde/escala ..............................................................................61 5. Aplicación de la teoría a la improvisación ..............................................................................63 5.1. El desarrollo melódico. ....................................................................................................63 5.1.1. Estructura del solo ....................................................................................................64 5.1.2. La construcción de una frase ....................................................................................65 5.2. Playing Changes ...............................................................................................................66 5.2.1. ii-V ...........................................................................................................................67 5.2.2. Blues........................................................................................................................70 5.2.3. Rhythm Changes ......................................................................................................73 5.2.4. Coltrane Changes .....................................................................................................74 5.3. La improvisación modal ...................................................................................................75 5.4. Cromatismo .....................................................................................................................77 5.5. La improvisación no tonal ...............................................................................................79 5.6. La improvisación libre......................................................................................................81 6. El acompañamiento................................................................................................................84 6.1. Los instrumentos polifónicos ...........................................................................................84 6.1.1. Chord Voicings.........................................................................................................84 6.1.2. Rearmonización
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